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Former Lt. Go v. Smith of
seeking the
again
a radio ddress from
Fort Worth Thursday blasted
Ramsey, charging
the state sen-
"was
PAVING PROJECT—A city motor
heir govern-
ment.
from Denton street to Dodson.
(Staff photo)
Governor’s Race Has
his headquar
will hold Ha
The newspaper
party with
traditional election
results to be marl ed on the big
up behind the cham-
board set
ber of commerce
office. State-
wide returns from the Texas
ureau w ill also be re-
Election
ported over a public address
exi
system 1 is they
taxes and
Register's Associated
over the
Senterfitt said the
Hard-
Texas had reached
high school.
I— Ben jar nin Franklin
Ward
school, W. R. Jackson.
Stra er.
THE INDEX
Pr
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Parle
s
Card
All ove r Texas
Democratic
Seven Reported Dead in Collision of Steamers
222
county conventions
Johnson
Steel
Gov. Shiv-
land over
There was considerable talk
convention
Strike
Is Ended
the test tote for
may come
at throw.
on resolut ons aimet I
in the
tions an
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Johnson in
of these switched to
meets.
The hot
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at-
voters'
tention. at least
iern tier of states.
JfW
there a
under way
retirement
of the state committee before
the
TO BOTTOM—The
CA DORIA
army: • Italian liner Andrea Doria heads for the bottom of
the the ocean 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, after
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ers could hold a coal ition of fac-
tions whih include 1 a strong
Register of-
judges are
Daniel ur
on the state
Texas
wondei
One candidate for state office
withdrew Thursday but all the
others were running as hard as
ate investigating committee ap-
pointed by Ramsey to probe the
Ward
tist chu:
Ward
Mrs. W<
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annex,
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between E
servative fi
er of the 11
state convention 1 or Lyndon
Johnson and Sam R ayburn keep
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yp‘s President Gamal Ab-
asser announced last night
Candidates here were wind-
ing up their campaigns today
and preparing to sit back and
await the returns from Satur-
day’s Democratic primary elec-
tion.
County Democratic Chairman
G. D. Bell is predicting a big
turn out at the polls, with the
total vote in the county reach-
ing between 6,500 and 7,000.
There are 7,794 voters in the
county who have qualified by
either paying poll taxes or ob-
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certificates,
shows 5,996 poll
,798 exemptions.
press wiie.
Gainsville
Forecast
Partly cloudy, not much tem-
perature change.
are:
Ward
r is seen at work this morning spread-
ing rock asphalt on a four-block stretch on Dodson street from Hird street to
Tennie street. Also included in the project will be the one block of Gilbert street
ernment held 44 per cent of its
stock. This dropped 21 percent
on the Paris market and the
French franc—already stagger-
ing under the impact of infla-
tion—lost more of its value in
relation to gold.
pt
Business News ......
Church News .......
Comics-Crosswords
Day’s Records ........
Deaths .....................
Editorials ...............
Markets ...................
Sports ......................
Weather .................
Women’s News .....
By GARTH JONES
Associated Pre is Staff
NEW YORK (PD—The saga
of a thrillingly swift sea rescue
is unfolding as survivors of the
Andrea Doria disaster reach
home.
Friday. He said he was the only
conservative candidate in the
Avenue Bap-
H. U. Nall.
Tay school.
Saturday may
revival of the
those runoffs” he said. c
O’Daniel’s troupe planned to
drive all night to Kilgore where
he will close his campaign Fri-
vey showed that lets than 50
counties went for Shi vers. Some
“My money — and it hasn't
been much—has come from the
people of Texas—from you —
who want to see honest, decent
government in Texas.
Daniel, in a political rally in
his hometown of Liberty, said
.that the big issue is who will
run Texas in the future.
“Will it be the people?” he
asked. “Or will it be the outside
pressure groups or the special
interests who have certain
things that they want to accom-
plish in the way of power?”
Polls
close at
"Bell w
ters at
flee, an
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Escaping the heat were areas
the Pacific coast and the
I set up
tie Daily
presidin g
scheduled onflict wa s a liberal-
conservative fight for selection
of delegates to the cpunty con-
vention and a battik for the
SeeTN
mee"
Lubbock,
post, I"
ing and Jesse James.
Voters will elect these unop-
posed candidates: Robert S. Cal-
vert as state comptroller; Wil-
liam Murray Jr., as a railroad
commissioner, and Robert W.
Calvert and Meade Griffin as
supreme court justices.
Wilson returned to Dallas to
close his campaign.
The candidate for attorney
general said “the race looks
pretty good at this point,” but
warned his supporters to avoid
complacency and urged them to
get his vote out Saturday.
A radio broadcast from Dal-
las Friday night will close his
campaign Wilson said.
Moore, of Waco, seeking the
same office, took his campaign
to San Angelo Thursday. ..He
said he would actively support
a stronger lobby control law.
Ross Carlton of Dallas, was
ending his campaign for attor-
ney general in Tarrant and
governments. saying the Egyp-
tian action might restrict free
use of the canal by world ship-
ping.
le people of
political ma-
turity and would not be influ-
Swedish ship Steel
“We have been
along
north<
Congressman-at-large — Mar-
tin Dies and Bill Elkins: h-
Today’s Chuckle
"Is the world round?” the
teacher asked the boy.
"No, ma‘m."
“Is it flat, then?”
“No. ma‘m.”
“Are you crazy, child? If it
isn’t round and it isn’t flat what
is it?”
“Pop says it’s crooked.*
(Copyright eneral Features Corp)
V
WE ARE NOT GOING to vote
for or against any of the three
issues tacked on to the bottom
of the ballot We feel they are
superfluous and unnecessary
and serve only to stir up ani-
mosity over a subject about
which we are hearing too much
nowadays.
labor wing.
In some!
Last-Minute Appeals
By The Associated Press "I never fool around with
By radio, television and
speeches in heavily populated
areas, the six men who want to
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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1956
■ged drought relief
level and an amend-
ment “setting up means by
which we can have a loan pro-
gram for our farmers who have
mortgages on their places.”
Who are bewildered and
ring if something sinister
is happening to
Party Primary
By The Associated Press Harris counties Thursday and promoters" who are trying to
“hound me out of office."
eneed by what he called "circus
tactics” in the campaign.
He criticized the use of coon
hunters and fiddlers and the
giving away of watermelons by
candidates.
farce.”
Johnson, of Austin, making
his seco nd try l or Ramsey’s
office, slid Ramsey was “the
No. 1 ta rget of tl e citizens of
race. Atty Gen. Shepperd did
not run.
Aikin of Paris in a telecast
from Dallas, said “the only
promise' I think any man can
make and fulfill, the only prom-
ise I have made the people of
our district for 23 yeafs, is
this: “If you see fit to honor me
by electing me lieutenant gov-
emor • in Texas, I will do the
best I know how to do right.”
Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey predict-
ed a victory without a runoff
despite what he called efforts of
a “ruthless clique of insurance
Actually, the true voting
strength of the county is not
revealed in the above figures
as citizens who are eligible for
d
ill open it 8 a.m. and
I p.m.
requested to bring their returns
there for tabulatiqn.
“2.
3338 3
383
We are supporting the Incum-
bent for congressman-at-large.
That completes the list of
state offices. Maybe you can
figure out who we are going to
vote for, maybe not.
Do not expect us to go down
the line in district, county and
precinct races. Readers know
as much, if not more, about
these candidates than we do and
certainly can make their own
decisions on these races with-
out assistance.
Egypt’s Affairs
ith Britain.
mm amm A A
France at Crisis
are received
and San
LONDON — Diplomatic
relations between Egypt and
the British and French govern-
ments reached a crisis today
over Egypt’s seizure of the Suez
Canal Co. under a nationaliza-
tion decree. t
The company was French-
controlled and the British gov-
political feuding.
“All we’re going to try to do
is control the conve ntions," a
•nd the
Rayburn
was the state party’s top man.‘
" “ May precinct conven-
, associated Press sur-
brilliance by the U.S.----
navy, coast guard, the 1. —
France, the Cape Ann and the
Stockholm .
insurance scandals
governments, including the
contact with other interested
and some at night. But no mat-
ter what he time < r place the
big questi in is:
Can the state party faction
that swept the May precinct and
plans for
Saturday.
following the state
as to whether Johnson's follow-
exemption certificate unless
they vote in a Gainesville box.
Likewise, persons who have
reached the age of 21 any time
since Jan. 1, 1955 may vote
without obtaining an exemp-
tion.
Keen interest in the primary
is indicated by the 328 absentee
ballots cast in the county be-
fore the . Tuesday night dead-
line. This is the same number
of absentee ballots marked
here in the 1954 July primary.
Bell reminds voters that pre-
cinct conventions will be held
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the
five Gainesville voting precincts
and at 2 p.m. Saturday in all
other precincts in the county.
The county Democratic con-
vention will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 4 at the court-
house. ‘
Egypt recently recognised
Bed China and its action was
condemned by the official
spokesman of the Chinese Na-
tionalist foreign ministry in
Formosa.
Relations between Cairo and
Paris over the Suez canal affair
were complicated by French re-
sentment at what the French
consider a broken promise by
Nasser to avoid intervention in
Algeria, where Arab national-
ists are in revolt.
Foreign Minister P i n e a u
claimed after visiting Cairo ear-
lier this year that Nasser gave
his word “as a soldier” not to
train troops in Egypt for the
Algerian nationalists, or other-
wise intervene in the revolt.
_ J. M. L ndsey school,
Mrs. Velma Lledtke. i
Some neighborhqod conven-
tions will
tions andBil Coop-
five voting
places and the pre siding judges
come in hotly contested races
for the co unty chail manship.
In other 3 the test may com-
ing out the i state exe cutive com-
mittee, named whe n Shivers
Gainesville
I '
really have no choice and could _____
not tel} your, at thismomentftralia
which of the three men We win
vote for.
the state party,
see a statewide
precincti Saturday
< ontrol will
pparently was a move
Nay to force
--exemptions by reason of their
ages do not have to obtain an
its tenure regularly < nds at the
September state convention.
In Harris county
d with LINER
GEVERAL PERSONS have
3 asked us how to vote in
some of the state races in Sat-
urday’s Democratic primary
election.
While we appreciate the com-
pliment, we feel that their guess
is as good as ours as to who
would best serve in certain of
the offices to be filled by the
voters tomorrow.
Like other voters, our per-
sonal feelings affect some of
our decisions. Our choice for
lieutenant governor is a North
Texan who has demonstrated
his ability as a lawmaker for
many years in the legislature.
We are voting for a man for
attorney general who has been
a district attorney and a su-
preme court justice, a man of
proven ability in his particular
field of endeavor.
In the case of supreme court
justice and judge of the court
of criminal appeals we have
been guided by the recommen-
dations of the state bar, which
has a way of knowing the men
best qualified for judicial posts.
We are glad, however, they
have chosen a candidate for the
criminal appeals post who has
been a frequent visitor in years
past to this editor’s desk.
FOR TWO OTHER state of-
fices we are voting for the in-
cumbents simply because we
are acquainted with the men
and we have never even met
their opponents.
For the last state office, we
Dallas county, a cc nservative
stronghold, featured a hot bat-
tie for the bounty chi irmanship
Drake of the con-
leaders are making last minute
precinct conventions
be governor were making a
last-minute appeal for votes to-
day for Saturday primary.
The race hod top interest
in Saturday’s balloting which
will also feature other state
end district and county races
and a referendum on three ra-
cial questions. The Democratic
precinct conventions will also
be held Saturday.
Ralph Yarborough, address-
ing a crowd of 1,000 at Athens,
said Thursday night he is "not
running nor am I run by Wal-
ter Reuther or any other out-
of state people in my cam-
paign."
He challenged his opponents
“openly and unmistakenly to
join me in a declaration of sup-
port for the Democratic party.”
Sen. Price Daniel said at Gal-
veston the National Maritime
Union and the CIO labor lead-
ers were furnishing marked
sample ballots Ndo their mem-
bers in an effort to block his
nomination. , p
He told campaign workers he
has never “made a move against
the working man” and said “tell
the voters to think for them-
selves and to realize who can
do the best job for them and
for Texas, not for Walter Reu-
ther.”
W. Lee O’Daniel, taking his
red fire truck and hillbilly band
to San Antonio for a speech
in front of the Alamo that at-
tracted 600, said he was against
any sales tax. He predicted he
would win a majority in the
first primary, j a
Dail RRegister
AND MESSENGER ‘e® • J " •
the whip
ers’ supporters?
day.
Reuben Senterfitt in a TV ad-
dress predicted he would be in
the runoff because he said he
was the only conservative can-
didate who could win in the
second primary.
J. Evetts Haley, addressing
400 at a “victory dinner” in
Dallas, lashed at the U.S. Su-
preme Court for some of its
recent decisions and urged that
Texas invoke interposition, the
doctrine in which a state pro-
tests federal action as an in-
vasion of rights which it be-
lieves are reserved to the state
by the constitution. -
“Interposition is just as sim-
ple, lust as honest, just as
American and just as constitu-
tional as ham and eggs,” he
said.
J. J. Holmes, who spent most
of the week in Huntsville try-
ing to see a convict whom he
says has information of the
bombing of Brady attorney Sam
McCollum III, went to San An-
tonio to end his campaign.
Daniel planned addresses in
Houston Friday and Yarborough
was to go to San Antonio. Most
candidates planned to spend
election day in their home-
towns.
In his Athens speech, Yar-
borough also said Reuther, pres-
ident of the United Auto Work-
ers union, “has not given one
red cent to my campaign. If he
had, I would have had more op-
portunity to present to you my
constructive program for Tex-
as.*
NEW YORK (P)-- A settle-
ment of the 27-day nationwide
steel strike was announced to-
day but a formal end to the
strike will not come until some-
time early next week.
David J. McDonald, president
of the United Steelworkers of
America, announced at a news
conference the settlement had
been reached. John A. Stephens,
chief industry negotiator, sat
beside him nodding agreement.
McDonald said that it will
take “several days,” however,
before individual contracts with
the steel companies ata be com-
pleted and signed.
He said a return to work of
the 650,000 striking steelwork-
ers must wait until the signing
of those contracts.
No terms of the settlement
were announced.
they could to round uprthe votes
in Saturday’s primary.
The withdrawal was by Cur-
tis HiHldaf Dallas. running for
attordNgeneral. He said “ow-
ing to reasons personal to me, I
have been unable to conduct an
intensive state-wide campaign
for the nomination.”
Nine state offices are at
stake. Five races will be settled
Saturday because only two can-
didates are In each of these con-
tests.
Statewide races are for gov-
ernor, lieutenant governor, at-
torney general, land commis-
sioner, agriculture commission-
er, treasurer, congressman-at-
large, a Supreme court justice
and a judge of the court of
criminal appeals.
Runoffs are possible in the
governor, lieutenant governor,
attorney general and agricul-
ture commissioner’s races. To
win without a runoff a candi-
date will have to get more, than
half the votes.
Here is the field for lesser
state offices:
Lieutenant governor—A, M.
Aikin Jr., C. T. Johnson, Ben
Ramsey and John Lee Smith.
Attorney General — Tom
Moore, Will Wilson and Ross
Carlton.
Land commissioner — Ned
Price and Earl Rudder.
Agriculture commissioner —
Jim Barber. Bill Jones and John
White.
Court of criminal appeals —
W. A. Morrison and Jesse
Owens.
Supreme court — Robert
Hughes and James Norvell.
spokesman for Shivers said.
Among |
the county ____
The hot governor’s race, plus
_______ spirited congressional
campaigns and local contests in
some areas, shifted voters’ at-
Tropical Storm
Passes Up Texas,
Moves Into Mexico
By The Associated Press
A tropical storm that ap-
peared headed for Texas veered
into Mexico Thursday, eliminat;
ing a promise of much needed
moisture and a threat that rain
would reduce voting Saturday.
The forecast for election day
calls for generally fair weather
with only a few isolated thun-
dershowers.
The gulf storm, named Anna
by the Weather bureau, blew in-
to Tampico at 60 miles an hour
and was expected to dissipate
in the mountains west of that
city.
The storm brought some scat-
tered showers along the Texas
coast Thursday. A small craft
warning continued in force.
Tides south of Corpus Christi
were to rise two to three feet.
Overnight showers were re-
ported at Cotulla, Junction, La-
redo and El Paso.
Early Friday skies were clear
in West Texas and partly cloudy
to cloudy elsewhere. Early
morning temperatures ranged
from 69 at Lubbock and Dalhart
to 81 at Galveston.
Mineral Wells with 103 re-
ported the highest reading
Thursday.
It Was warm over the major
part of the nation today.
the liber il faction
The crippled motor ship
Stockholm, carrying 533 per-
sons from the Italian liner, was
due here today.
The deluxe, 30,000-ton Andrea
Doria sank yesterday some 11
hours after a collision with the
12,600-ton Stockholm in heavy
fog off the Massachusetts coast
At least seven persons were
reported dead, and hundreds
were Injured in the nighttjme
collision. But the immense res-
cue operation was believed to
have accounted for every one of
the 1,709 persons aboard the
Andrea Doria.
The Andrea Doria went down
with a 40-foot slash in her star-
board (right) forward side. The
Italian liner was steaming back
to New York from the Mediter-
ranean, while the Sstockholm
was outbound headed for Co-
penhagen.
Waterfront sources here, com-
menting on the smaller ship’s
survival, noted that the Stock-
holm’s prow was built four to
eight feet thick to slice through
northern ice packs during win-
ter runs.
The Andrea Doria, which
made her maiden voyage in
1953, had been considered al-
most unsinkable. She had the
latest safety locks designed to
make her compartments water-
tight.
Both vessels were equipped
with radar.
The master of the Andrea
Doria, Capt. Piero Calamai, ar-
rived last night aboard the
American destroyer escort Ed-
ward H. Allen, which brought
in 76 crew survivors.
Calamai, haggard and worh,
read a statement which shed no
light on the cause of the colli-
sion. He said in part:
"As you know, the<Andrea
Doria was hit last night by the
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a collision with the Swedish liner Stockholm in a
thick fog. Photo made by Harry Trask of the Boston
Traveler.
(AP Wirephoto-Copyright by Boston Traveler 1956)
Showers and thunderstorms
were expected for most of the
country during the day, with a
possibility of temporary relief
to the broad heat belt.
The cooler air which moved
south and eastward across the
upper Mississippi valley last
night brought relief from the
hot weather across parts of the
northern Rockies and Pacific
Northwest, which had tempera-
tures in the Ms and 100s for
several days.
Gainesville had a high of 103
degrees Thursday afternoon and
a low temperature of 74 last
night. The reading was 95 at
noon today with a barometer
rising at 30.16.
Treasurer — Warren
Heavy Voting
Due iff Cooke
Ward : 1—Junior
Ed Liedt te, Sr.
Egypt was expropriating the
101-mile canal and would use
its revenue to finance the As-
wan dam.
French Foreign Minister
Christian Pineau called in Egyp-
tian Ambassador Kamal Eddine
Abdel Nabi and protested the
action In what informed sources
called "energetic language.”
After the conference diplomat-
ic relations between France and
Egypt were described as almost
at the breaking point. The
Egyptian ambassador called Pi-
neau’s words “inadmissible and
unacceptable” and said he
thought his government would
have to reconsider its relations
with France.
British Prime Minister Eden
told a tense house of commons
that nationalization of the wa-
terway had created a serious
situation which would have to
be handled with “firmness and
care.”
Reacting with fiery language
to withdrawal of British and
United States, offers to help fi-
nance the $1300,000,000 Aswan
dam on the Nile, Nasser de-
clared in Alexandria:
"We don’t have to seek Amer-
ican and British aid for building
our dam. We’ll build the dam
ourselves and with our own
money.”
Nasser said Egypt would real-
ize 100 million dollars a year
from the canal to build the dam.
Figures from the canal com-
pany indicated he might have
to double tolls to do so.
The canal is the major chan-
nel for Middle East oil. This
was reflected on the Paris mar-
ket with a $6.50 drop in Esso
Standard stock to $189 a share.
Eden remained silent on sug-
gestions frgm some members of
parliament that Britain might
have to use force against Egypt.
But he said his government was
considering stopping shipment
of all British arms to Egypt.
The British aircraft carrier
Eagle, major unit of the British
navy closest to Egypt, remained
at Naples, Italy.
Eden said his government was
consulting with other interested
be in th e afternoon
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